Literalist Sawz,

Okay, it's kinda like when you go to Aunt June's for Thanksgiving and everyone raves about here sweet-potato pie because she makes a big deal about how she got the recipe from Great-granny... But no one really likes her sweet-potato pie and when they get together when Aunt June ain't around they all make jokes about havin' to pretend that they like the pie...

In the South, it's called "grinnin' in yer face" where folks will act as if they is the best of friends (grinnin') when both know that if the rules were off that they'd be dukin' it out behind the barn...

Unfotunately, that is the way politics are... Ya gotta pretend that Aunt June's sweet-potato pie is good and pretend that the guy yer grinnin' at and who is grinnin' back at you is the best of friends... That's life... That's also politics...

Like I said, Obama couldn't have trashed both of Bush's wars and been elected so he picked the one that was the wronger of the two and went with the other so that he wouldn't give the Repub that big "soft on defense" opening...

Can I prove that??? Nah... No one really can... I'm sure that Michelle knows what Obama really feels about Afganistan but, hey, like others who have come before him, he'll just have to ride this one out...

But one thing is fir sure and that is that no other president has inherited two hot wars from the guy he followed... Not Reagan, not Lincoln, not Kennedy, not any of them... That alone isn't helping Obama in some quarters... I mean, regarless of whether or not he would have gotten US into one or both of these wars (which I think he wouldn't on both of them), he is stuck with them and as time goes on people will blame him for them... That's reality...

B~